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Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a cultivator, which has a movable beam for use as a straddle row cultivator that allows the draft animal to walk on either side of the rows of plants.
Date: July 23, 1907
Creator: Nicholson, Matthew H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Sweep. (open access)

Cotton-Sweep.

Patent for cotton sweep. This invention helps in easy spreading and setting of sweeping blades, "since it provides a novel form of brace to be interposed between the blades of the sweep and the stock" (lines 15-17).
Date: December 23, 1902
Creator: Brown, Burel J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Planter (open access)

Cotton Seed Planter

Patent for a cotton seed planter. Illustration included.
Date: May 23, 1911
Creator: McGuire, Daniel Harry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement. (open access)

Agricultural Implement.

Patent for "the production of simple and inexpensive means whereby the ordinary farming implements--such as plows, cultivators, and the like--may be readily convert to the sulky or wheeled type." (line 11-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1906
Creator: Cornelison, Jesse U.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Machine (open access)

Cotton-Picking Machine

Patent for a cotton picking machine. Illustrations included.
Date: May 23, 1911
Creator: Haring, Peter Paul
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment. (open access)

Cultivator Attachment.

Patent for an invention "whereby a wheel-cultivator of any style, pattern, or make can be readily converted into a land-marker or planter." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 23, 1897
Creator: Dayton, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for a cotton press with "a roller bed consisting of a plurality of rollers in conjunction with an overlying pressure roll or cylinder, between which and the roller-bed the bale is formed by winding up the bat, as it comes from the gin-condenser, in the form of a roll" (lines 15-20). The roll-bale is unique in this patent because of its core.
Date: March 23, 1897
Creator: Banister, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for improvements to cultivators that allow the driver to adjust displacement in order to avoid obstacles without changing the path of operation.
Date: September 23, 1913
Creator: Foster, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Ejector for Presses. (open access)

Bale-Ejector for Presses.

Patent for the improvement in cotton-bale presses or compressors; and it has for its object to provide a means whereby the bale, after being properly compressed, will be automatically ejected from the press, as more fully hereinafter specified.
Date: December 7, 1880
Creator: Riesel, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Box. (open access)

Baling Box.

Patent for a new and improved baling box. This design consists "[i]n a baling-box, the bottom board having cleats and end board and fixed standards that reach above the end board in combination with the hinged side boards and end board hinged to [another] board, [those] boards being provided with cleats that reach beyond the edges of the boards to receive the loops" (lines 87-94).
Date: September 23, 1884
Creator: Bulkeley, Oliver
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment For Plows And Cultivators. (open access)

Attachment For Plows And Cultivators.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements for plows and cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 23, 1900
Creator: Hardeman, James Maxwell & Belt, Charles Tighman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Tying Machine. (open access)

Bale-Tying Machine.

Patent for a bale tying machine that wraps and ties cylindrical bales, "especially for placing wrappers of jute or other bagging material around cylindrical cotton - bales" (lines 11-14) while holding the bale compressed.
Date: January 23, 1906
Creator: Cagle, Carter M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton-chopper with two disk-cutters mounted to a supporting frame, which can be positioned parallel or at an angle to each other. Each disk-cutter is attached by a projecting arm, which provides foot support and allows each disk to be operated independently. Patent includes illustrations.
Date: November 23, 1920
Creator: Jones, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator Combined. (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator Combined.

Patent for improvement to a cotton-chopper with a "mechanism for cultivating the soil between the hills as well as for bringing the said hills to a regular form" (lines 18-20).
Date: February 23, 1886
Creator: Muray, Joseph L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for an improved cotton-chopper.
Date: April 23, 1912
Creator: Leubner, Carl W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a new type of cotton chopper that has the ability to be adjusted in the vertical to make for faster cotton cutting. This is a simpler design making it cheaper to make and easier to repair.
Date: April 23, 1914
Creator: Fultz, Deck B.
System: The Portal to Texas History